davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02

SECRETARY WHITNEY, who was pres
ent at the experiment made by Lieut..
Zalinski with his dynamite air-gun, has
expressed his opinion that the new
weapon, so far as the experiment went,
was a success, and claims that it has
demonstrated dynamite in destructive
quantities can be lodged mile and q
quarter off with considerable accuracy :;
and, more than this, that it is a matter
of detail merely to increase the range
of tho gun and the quantity of the
explosive so as to render it capable of
destroying the strongest ironclads. All
reports of the experiment seem to in
dicate that the dynamite gun, the shell
propelled by compressed air or fired
by slow-burning powder by Lieut..
Graydoff's method, is destined to revo-
lutionize the existing system of de-
fensiye warfare, if not of offensive.
The first shot of the air-gun, with a
charge of only fifty pounds of dyna-
mite, blew the wooden vessel which
was the target into fragments; and
Lieut.. Zalinski is confident he can
fire 600 pounds if necessary. Lees
that this would destroy any iron or
steel vessel. Armed with these terrors
we could look with complacency at the
approach even of the Trafalgar, the last
and most formidable of the English
ironclads, with its 1O1-ton guns.
Hitherto the torpedo. boats have been
the only enemies feared by these
iron monsters, against which they
have protected themselves with nettings
to catch the projectiles. 1t has not yet
been demonstrated that the netting
would save them even from the tor
pedoes, as there has been no test made
in actual conflict; but a 60O-pound
dynamite rocket fred by electricity
would not be restrained by nettings, or,
even if it were, would still get in its
work, for no vessel yet constructed
could withstand the shock of that ex.
plos.ou. Its Importance as an arm in
naval warfare apparently has not been
oyerestimated. It will make our shores
impregnable against attack, and it In
dicates that the Trafalgars and Infexi'
bles have had their day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE Spanish Government Is about to build
six cruisers Of 4, 500 tons each.
THERE are 1000 bootblacks in St Louis,
and some of them are well of.
THERE are 105, ,14S Union soldiers buried in
the National Cemeteries Of Virginia.
ToRNADoEs in some part or other Of the
United States average about 200 year.
THE Garfield monument at Cleveland,
Ohio, will not be completed for two years.
THE banana has been acclmated in Butte
Comfy, CAL, and trees are now ID full Dear
ing.
THERE were 3O,7Se fatal cases Of cholera in
the Northwest Provinces OF India during
July.
A BOX factory at Lakeside, Mich, is max.
ing II 900 boxes to fill an order from Central
America
A cANNERY at Santa Rosa, CAL, has put
up ], ,000, 900 cases of peaches, grapes, pears
etc., this year.
MANY of the orange orchards about Los
Angeles, Cal, are being cut up for residence
and business lots.
A FOREST Of petrifed trees Is said to have
been discovered on the line Of the Rideau
Canal in Canada.
ITALY has entered into an alliance with
with the two Empires
THE Dominion Government will soon send
carload of Holsters to the Pacific coast for
propagating purposes.
THERE are only two public statues in San
Francisco-one Of President Garfield, the
other Of General Halleck.
ISAAC ELLIS, Petersburg, Va, patriarch,
has just taken unto himself his eighth wife.
Ellia 10 Sevanty-fiye wars old and is the
father of thirty-six children.
ST. PETERSBURG expects another great
trial of the Anarchists this year, when the
cases Of some fifteen Russian officers charged
with various political crimes will be disposed
of.
SEVERAL dozen camels are owned in the
vicinity Of San Antonio, Texas: Ihey are
the progeny of animals brought from Arabia
in 1852, to test their usefulness in crossing the
Moiave desert on the old Southern California
trail.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
South and West.


THERE are more than fifty cases of yellow
fever at Tampa, Fla.
CHARLES EDWARDS (colored) was hanged
liam Echols (white).
STEPHEN RAwsoN, the millionaire Presi.
dent of the Union Trust Company, Of
Chicago, was shot five times and mortally
wounded while coming out of church. His
assailant was his eighteen-year-old stepson,
William Lee, and domestic trouble was the
cause of the crime, Mrs Rawson having
separated from her husband
A RESOLUTION to reduce the General E1-
ecutive Board of the Knights of Labor from
seven to five members led to a bitter debate
in the General Assembly at Minneapolis.
The majority were charged with uniting to
get rid of Messrs. Berry and Bailey, two of the
members In the uproar which followed
motion to adjourn was carried. Secession
from the Order was talked Of by some men,
berS.
THREE hundred citizens started in pursuit
of gang of robbers who murdered the Rev.
Thomas 2. Ryan, Methodist minister, near
Walton, w. Va. The robbers were found in
fortified house. The result of a fight was
the shooting of one robber, the capturing
and lynching of another, and the wounding
Of five Of the citizens.
ARIzoNA's population is stated in Governor
Zulick's annual report to be 10000.
GOVERNOR VESTS annual report estimates
the population of Utah at 100000 There
are 2,0U0, 200 animals of all kinds in the Ter
ritory, and the mining output last year was
s7,GS1, ,72a The Governor opposes them ove-
ment of the Mormons for Statehood.
MRS. LAX, the woman who threw q pam
cake at Mrs. Cleveland in St. Louis, was fined
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
LATER NEWS

HENRY SCHAFNER, Of Pottsville, Penn,
seventy -one years old, in an insane fit OF
groundless jealousy shot and killed his wife,
aged fifty-six years, and then put an end to
himself with pistol ball.
THE twenty-fourth annual Convention OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at
Chicago, was welcomed by Governor Oglesby
and Mayor Roche. Chief Arthur, in his an.
nual address, spoke strongly against strikes
and in favor of abstinence from drink. The
Brotherhood now numbers $1,000 men.
THE twenty-frst annual convention Of
American Architects has just been held in
Chicago.
THE General Assembly Of the Knights OF
Labor at Minneapolis has adjourned. Next
year the Convention will be held at Indian.
apolis.
MEssRs. OBERLY and Edgerton, two OF
the three Civil Service Commissioners, do
not agree upon some constructions Of the
Civil Service law. The former opposes
political organizations of officeholders at the
National Capital; the latter thinks they have
right to exist.
SEVERE snowstorms, accompanied in some
parts by hurricane, are reported from Italy.
Crops and animals were greatly injured, a
number of houses were unroofed at Pisa, and
several persons drowned in Lake Como
THE carpenter of Russian schooner muir
dered the Captain and five of the crew, and
then threw their bodies overheard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
TUMBLING IN RUINS,
Seven Men Killed BY Buildings
Fall in New York.


By tho fall of an unfinished building in East
115th street, New York, few days since,
seven workmen were killed and about
eleven others were injured, several Of them
seriously. The accident was the result Of
haste and bad management. Details of the
accident are as follows:
By order of the Rev. Father Kerner, Of
the Church of our Lady of Mount Carmel,
workmen began to build q parochial school
at No. 439 East 115th street about
two months ago. The building was
to be five stories high, with 'front.'
age Of twenty-five feet and q depth Of
the work rapidly and cheaply. About twen-
ty men were at work in the unfinished struc-
ture at $3.50 P. N. the other day. The side
walls were up as far as the fourth story
and tho rear wall was nearly as
high, while the front had not been
raised above the foundation. A steam en-
gine was at work in front Of the building
driving hod elevator. The floor beams had
not been supported properly in the middle,
up with its load of bricks and mortar.
Finally the unsupported side walls could
not longer bear the strain, and they fell with
out warning while all the workmen were
busy There was crash that startled every
body in the neighborhood. Bricks from the
top of the west wall crushed the roof of the
frame blacksmith shop at No. 437, and killed
Henry Reinitz, horseshoer, who was at
work there. For a few seconds after
the crash the ruins were partly obscured by q
cloud of pulverized mortar Through the
cloud few men were seen struggling to
escape from the wreck. Loud cries from the
helpless wounded men were heard.
A great crowd Of excited people soon filled
the street, and for q time the work Of rescue
was impeded by the throng. A policeman
ran to the signal box at First avenue and
115th street. and sent out an alarm offire. Call
for ombulances were sent from the same box
little later. Hearing the alarm, Captain
Hooker, of the East 126th street squad, went
with his reserve force of policemen to scatter
the crowd and help the firemen in the
work Of rescue. Five companies Of firemen,
who had responded to the alarm, went to
work promptly. At first the workmen who
were in sight wero carried out of the ruins.
Among the seriously injured was the Rev.
Amelianus Kerner. the priest who had been
looking after the erection Of the building
He died on Wednesday. The dead number
seven, and tho injured eleven.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
RICH IN YEARS.

Mrs. LYDIA BACON, of Boston, was 10e
years old q few days since.
SAMUEL Posi-, who died at Ketchum's Cor.
ners, n Y, recently, was in his ninety-first
year.
MRS. NANCY EDGERLY, Of Wofboro, n.
H., is l03 years old She delights in political
conversation.
WHEN Thomas Whipple died at Brown Set.
tlement, Sullivan county, n. Y, recently, he
had enjoyed nearly lOl years of active life.
FoR 1O3 years Mrs. Lucy Luther, Of
Hacllymc, Conn, who died ON Wednesday,
had been stranger to disease, and had all
her mental faculties.
THE oldest volunteer fireman in the United
States is S lid to be John do Micr, of Allen
town, Mo-, who joined Relief Company No
2 of Cincinnati i'll ISIS. He is more than s.
years of age.
THOMAS BowEH, of White County, Ga.
has just rounded q century of lie. lie cult!
Yates flowers and grur,is. He oa:a raised a
gourd that was four feet in cream. .renc :.
and which held a blShel of shs!!ei corn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
PITH AND POINT.

During storm it is all up with an UNI
brella.
The hornet always manages to keep his
end up.
Odd, isn't it, that fast colors never
run2-TI1Bits.
"Put up and shut up"-the stoves and
doors.-Dansoilk Breeze.
! Upright pianos are often played by
downright bores.-Duluth Photographer.
How sweet and pleasant it is to eat
big dinner for ones country. -PAaadel-
phia Inquirer.
"Does he 60 by machinery" inquired
little girl who saw dude on bicycle
! passing.-New Huven NeUs.
It is not every bicycle rider who can
lower the record, but it is poor bicycle
that cannot lower the ider.-Pailadelphia
Call.
81 think I'll give this country the
shake" remarked the malaria, as If
! preparing for business. - Washington
Critic.
Our best friends are those who keep.
perfectly quiet when some one is enume-
rating our virtnes.-iShoe and LEATHER
Reporter.
A Harlem lady put her tongue to hot
fiat iron, thinking it was not hot, and
her husband has had quiet time of it
lately.-NeaO York News.
II cannot be content with less than heaven,n
Said Mr.. Bailey poet Of much worth.
| Not so modest he as many later, -
Who would be satisfied with the earth.
Life <
sIn literature there seems to be a man
constantly catching our ideas" said
writer. "Yes," some one rejoined, "and
the trouble is that he catches them before
! you do"
"What do you sell that ribbon fora"
asked young lady in dry goods
store. Eight dollars a week-oh, beg
pardon-50 cents yard, miss. - Wash;
ington Critic.
The subject of "The American Bari is
attracting daily attention in the Eastern
press. 1t receives considerable attention
here, but mostly closes at midnight.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"That man may not be pugilist," re-
marked hotel proprietor after stormy
interview with n guest who kicked at
the amount of his bill, "but I'm sure
that he is a price-fgnter. .'-Arkansaw
Irareler.
"No, darling" said a Burlington
mother to sick child, "the doctor says
| l mustn't read to YOU" Then, mamma" :"
begged the little one, "won't you please
read to yourself out "--Burlington
FIRE. Press.
"Pig pens close to the wall, or close
to the house." says the Farmers Friend,
''mean death" You bet; death to the
pig. It's pretty hard to locate the pen
so as to change this fatal Specification,
too.-Burdette.
clay off your overcoat or your won't
feel it when you 60 out, )" said landlord
of Western inn to guest who was sit
ting by the fire. 'The last time I was
here left off my overcoat. I didn't feel
it when went out, and I haven't felt it
since. ."-IndustriaL World. .
LET HIM QUIT.
"As this changeful world you 60 travelling
through,
With its mixture of wrong and of right,
Be sure that you give all sympathies to
The under dog in the fight"
This all is very well as it goes to be sure,
| But it seems for this comment to call;
The dog that is under is foolish, by thunder,
To be in the fight ut all!-Boston Courier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
THE NATIONAL GAME.

ALL of the International League clubs
have disbanded.
BALDWIN has caught ffty-one consecutive
games for Cincinnati.
Boston is willing to spend $50, 900 for
team to win the pennant next season.
THERE will be many changes in the diff
ferent League and Associ alton Clubs next
season.
THOMPSON, of the Detroits, has this season
made over 200 actual hits and leads all the
League batsmen in this particular.
CAPTAIN SwARTwooD, of the Brooklyn
Club, says that three years is long enough
for any player to stay with team.
MIKE KELLY, when asked the other day II
he would play in Boston, said: well, guess
not Pmno use to them, and they had better
let me 60"
THE Brooklyn Club has purchased the
rights and franchise of the Metropolitan CLUB.
A general reorganization Of these two teams
will take place.
So large number of exhibition games have
been arranged by the League and Assocla-
tien Clubs this fall that the show will fly be-
fore they are all played.
THE manner in which the League clubs
have been instructed to make known who
they reserve, would indicate that they have
begun against the Brotherhood.
THERE have been not few whispered con-
versations among Association and League
managers lately, and it would not be sur
| prising if the Association would join issues
against the combination of ball players.
REPORTS from San Francisco say that the
New York Club will be met with royal re-
cept:on on their arrival out there. Director
Appleton, who is now out there, predicts
| brilliant success for the club.
THE latest sensation in the baseball world
has been the marriage of John M. Ward, the
short top of the New York Club and Presi-
dent Of the National Brotherhood of Players,
to Helen Dauvray, the popular actress. Miss
| Dauvray was an almost constant attendance
at the games on the New York's grounds the
| mast season
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
TOMORROW.

Bind up a wreath and give it me
Before this dull day closes,
And in the garland let there be
The thorns as well as roses;
Weave violets in and greenest bays,
Weave willow for my sorrow,
Sad flowers for the yesterdays,
White lilies for tomorrow.
White lilies, for they tell Of peace
Beyond the gates Of even, @
Where whispers of the souls release
Seom mystic hints Of heaven,
And yesterday-but that has gone,
And 80 needs must borrow
A hope Of that swift-coming dawn,
The promise Of to- morrow.
For evermore tomorrow lends
Bright visions of completeness;
True lovers, and the steadfast friends
With faces full of sweetness:
But backward all seems dim and gray
And vaguely touched with SORROW
Icare not for your yesterday
If I may have tomorrow.
The past is past-ah! dead indeed,
I weep not for its going,
Its phantoms weird no more heed
Than west winds wildly blowing;
Press onward, aye! and upward, heart,
While I my gladness borrow, "s
For Hope and I shall never part .
While I can have tomorrow.
ERNEST M'Gafey, in the Inter- Ocean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
THE LABOR WORLD.

MORE than 10000 electric motors are now
in operation in this country.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred to three thousand
miners are out on strike in Southern
Indiana.
THE weekly Brddstreet's records 1850
strikes throughout the country for the cur
rent year.
THE production of pig iron has increased
in the Pittsburg district from 1000 tons per
day last year to $500 tons at present
GENERAL SECRETARY LITCHMAN says the
knights Of Labor on July /, 1887, numbered
$50, 600, decrease Of about 195, 900 members
during the year .,a--.
THE London Iron says that American cheap
hardware is driving all European competi-
tors out of the markets Of that continent
More than $4,000 dozen American monkey
wrenches are exported to Europe annually,
it is said, to supply the foreign demand.
The blast furnace report as published in
the american Manufacturer shows that on
October there were 346 furnaces, with
weekly capacity of II, ,638 tons, out of blast.
On the same date the number of idle fur
naces was 243, with q weekly capacity of
$1,000 tons.
THE Emery Coal and Railroad Company
has been chartered in Tennessee with capi-
tai OF 100000. The company has acquired
100000 acres of mineral lands, beside $780,.
OO) worth of property in the city of
Chattanooga They will proceed at once to
build blast furnaces, rolling mills, and foun-
dries.
SINCE the last report July the Brotherhood
of Carpenters has granted charters to thirty
two new Unions, ranging from Brookline,
Mass, to Elsinore, Cal, and from Milwaukee,
Wis, to Jacksonville, Fla. The brotherhood
has 80 local Unions, and upward Of $4,000
members
AKNIGHrs OF LABOR Convention at Sham
okn, Penn, was attended by 800 delegates,
representing the employees of the Reading
Railroad Resolutions Of sympathy with the
Lehigh Valley striking miners were passed
and financial assistance was contributed.
The knights expressed themselves as pleased
with the eIisting relations with their en-
ployers
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02

A PIrTsFIELD, ILL.,, man is said to
have made o big barrel churn upon
wheels. He goes through the country
gathering the cream, and when he has
secured the proper quantity returns
home. On the way home he connects
the churning gear, and as he drives
along the churuing goes on as the
wagon goes along, and when he arrives
there is nothing to do but take out the
butter and draw off the buttermilk.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THERE are only four characters in Octave
Feuillet's new play.
SEVERAL young ladies of Madison, Wis,
have organized cornet band.
MICHIGAN has novelty in bicy Gle band.
The musicians play as they ride.
Mr.. THEODORE THOMAS will soon begin his
New York season Of orchestral concerts.
RIsToRrs recently published Memoirs" re-
veal that she made her debut as three-
monthS-old child.
SARAH RERNHARDT has written play
called 'The Pin" 1t is said to be full of bright
points, sharp satire, and polished dialogue.
"TuE Father Of Six Monkeys; or, the
Prophet of Penon," is the unique name OF
popular play now running i'll tho City Oh
Mexico.
FRANK BANGS will star Lawrence Barrett's
plays, Francesca da Rimini' and "Rienzl"
this season. Manager Ed Stone is organizing
good supporting company.
MISS BESSIE CLEVELAND. one of the lead
ing members of Western comic opera COM
pany now playing in Ohio cities, claims 10 %
niece of the President She is good looking
and has sweet alto voice.
Ok the boards of one of the cheap theatres
in Chicago is a young English tenor OF noble
birth who has made his youth noteworthy oy
squantlerng an inheritance OF more than
10000 in less than two years.
FOUR prominent clergymen in New York
have taken as text Richard Manshelds per-
formance of "Dr. Jelyll and Mr.. Hyde The
Rev. DR.. Eaton said: II certainly do not re-
member any drama so powerful in its moral
effect"
SOCIAL circles in Washington are sur
prised at the report that Miss Ethel Sprague,
douohtor of Nfrc knte Chase Sprague, and
eranddauehter of the late Chief-JuStice Sal
mon p. Chase, is about to make her debut Oh
the dramatic stage.
Miss ELEANOR EVEREST is the most popu-
lar young woman in Phladelphia's amateur
musi.al circles She is just out OF her teens,
is good looking, and has we'll nigh perfect
soprano voice. A music house has named q
collection of songs "EleaRor Everest's Al
bum" in her honor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
Washington.

GENERAL GREELY, Chief Signal Officer,
recommends that trial be made Of homing
pigeons in the service.
THE Treasury Department recommends
that United States attorneys, marshals and
clerks be paid salaries, and the fee system be
abolished.
IT is stated that the Government will pro-
tect American seal fisheries in Alaskas waters
from foreign depredations at all hazard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED.
Two of Them Killed-A BombAgafnst
The Gar Door.


The Oar Door.
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic mail and express, which left Ell Paso,
Texas, the other evening, was stopped four
miles out Of the city by three masked men:
While two men covered the engineer and
fireman with their revolvers tho third ran
back to the mail car and threw bomb
ayanst the door. The explosion which fol-
lowed shattered the door and side of car into
splinters The agent was dazed and badly
frightened by the shock, but uninjured. Here
covered himself, however, and poured charge
from a doub!e-barreled shotgun into tho
breast Of tho rohber who had junpe1into the
car, killing him instantly. The two on the
engine, hearing the report fled. The mail
agent fired the remaining load after them
Tho train then returned to Ell Paso AMI re-
maineI until morning.
A si:cr:fi7s posS. pursued the robbers next
day, AMI foInl the dead body OF another OF
them, vino had been shot by the maii agent
THE fish ir h" Arkansas river appear te he
affected with y M. s.caagc disease. Muny OF
those caught with hoo; or net spoil within d
few hours after being taken from the water.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02
NEWS SUMMARY
Eoetern md Middle States

THE large Sprague Baltic Mill, built of
stone, five stories in height, 1000 by 800 feet,
at Baltic, Conn.,, was totally wrecked by fire
the other morning, The loss is $l,5OO,OoO; In
surance s257,0O0.
THREE members of the British Parliament
Sir John Swinburne, o. V. Morgan and
HALEY Stewart-who will present an inter-
national arbitration memorial to the Pres
ident and Congress, have arrived in New
York.
CHARLES DICKENS, eldest son of the distin-
guished English novelist, has arrived in New
York He will read selections from his
fathers works.
THE National Rubber Company, of Proyl-
dence, r. l., has failed for upwards OF $780,
900.
FOREST fires on the Blue Mountain range
in Pennsylvania have been devastating valu-
able timber lands.
A GLOUCESTER (Mass.) schooner's captain
reports having fallen in with French fish
ing sloop waterlogged on the Grand Banks;
He boarded her, and found ten men drowned
in the cabin.
A LOCKOUT of 1000 shoemakers has taken
place in Philadelphia.
A FIRE in the business section of Syracuse,
N Y. destroyed property valued at s4oO, 600.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02

THE remains of great Roman building
are being brought to light at the steamboat
station of Fischen. on the Ammersee, in Ba
varia. Already frontage of 100 feet, with
eight separate rooms, has been cleared, and
cellar has been discovered.